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Lucas College and Graduate School of Business
By Cassie Myers
Stories that highlight experiential learning
As the largest provider of business graduates for Silicon Valley, the Lucas College and Graduate School of Business provides a talent pool, idea leadership and business community engagement through our institutes and centers of excellence that support the region's growth in the global marketplace. See how faculty provide our students with incredible experiential learning opportunities in AI, hospitality management, supply chain logistics and entrepreneurship.
Nitin Aggarwal, professor of information systems and technology, showing students how AI can help suggest when to buy and sell stocks. Photo by Jim Gensheimer.
Taking Care of (AI in) Business
Any significant technological advancement inevitably provokes reactions: fear, joy, excitement, panic and greed, among countless others. In business, the advancement provokes even more questions: Do you avoid it or adapt to it — swerve, or steer into the skid?
E-Lab: The Golden Key to Startup Life
In Silicon Valley, the word “startup” means many things: a key, a launchpad, maybe even a starter’s pistol to gain entry into the tech world. And San José State University is also many things, but geographically, it’s the university in the heart of Silicon Valley, and therefore uniquely situated to help students who want experience with startups.
Photo by Jim Gensheimer.
The 2024 Pebble Beach Special Event Management Team. Photo courtesy of Terry Thompson.
Pebble Beach Gets a Taste of SJSU Hospitality
The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is an exclusive event: a charity golf tournament held at an astonishingly beautiful location, with a backdrop of ocean waves and stunning courses. This year NFL legends Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers participated, along with some of the most famous names in golf, including Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and Scottie Scheffler. But there’s another name that should be associated with the event, if it’s not already: San José State University.
Mitigating Disaster
Students in Michael Klein’s Supply Chain Analytics course play a disaster-response game that teaches them the importance of supply chain logistics in natural disasters.
No one likes to think of worst-case scenarios. But when and if these scenarios occur, the right response can mean the difference between life and death.
These are heady topics for anyone in an undergraduate business course to tackle, but students who play the Disaster Response Game in the Supply Chain Analytics course at San José State University’s Lucas College and Graduate School of Business know them all too well.
AI illustration generated by Adrianna Rodriguez, ’24 Graphic Design.
Top photo: Jim Gensheimer.
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